ReferencesA continuously evolving and growing list of figures, practitioners, references, and readings from the X, Y, and Z class. Assigned and further readings from each week’s class are all gathered here for a single overview of reading material from the semester.

Tania Bruguera “We live in a time when we need to defend complexity and the right to be complex. That doesn’t mean being baroque or deliberately trying hard not to be understood. It simply means defending different perspectives.” [•]

Nasrin Himada Montréal-based writer/curator with research focus on the history of Palestinian cinema, art and activism; and the militarization of urban space through prison infrastructure and police surveillance

Amaranth Borsuk, The Book (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2018) Excerpts of introductory pages from each of the four chapters: “The Book as Object,” “The Book as Content,” “The Book as Idea,” “The Book as Interface”

Christopher Hight, “Modulor: Residues of History” (excerpt) in Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics (London: Routledge, 2007)

Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross, “Designing books: an introduction to book design, in particular to book typography” (including “Format and Thickness, Hand and Eye”) in Designing books: practice and theory (London: Hyphen Press, 1996)